Obit for John Leddy - Kingfisher County, Oklahoma 

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Source: THE KINGFISHER WEEKLY FREE PRESS, Thursday, December 27,
1928.


OBITUARY OF JOHN (JACK) LEDDY


John (Jack) LEDDY was born at Owen Sound, Canada, October 15, 1848,
and died on December 22, 1928 at Hennessey, Okla., aged 80 years, two
months and seven days.

At the age of twelve years, he went with his parents to Illinois. A
year later, in his thirteenth year, he enlisted with the 94th
Illinois Infantry, at Bloomington, in that state. He served in the
army three years and nine months.

He was married in his thirty-third year to Elizabeth BLANKENSHIP at
Anadarko, Okla. He was employed for a number of years by the U.S.
government in the Indian service and for a considerable time
afterwards as a peace officer.

He became a member of the I.O.O.F. while a young man and remained an
esteemed member of that organization throughout the balance of his
life.

He came to Kingfisher county in 1889, where he filed on a homestead
southeast of Hennessey.

He leaves to mourn his death, his wife and son, Howard, of Britton,
Okla., one brother, residing at Conway Springs, Kansas, a sister, Mrs.
Rose FOX, of Owen Sound, Canada, and two grandchildren, Jack and
Harold LEDDY, of Houston, Texas. One son, Guy Claude, preceded him in
death.